Grothaus sought to replace the officers with lower-paid MGC employees, which was resisted by both the patrol and the commission.
[4] A few weeks later, commissioner Dan Finney asked state auditor Nicole Galloway to conduct an audit of the agency.
Finney cited his agreement with Grothaus's proposal as a motivating factor, arguing the commission was spending far more than it needed to.
An unknown whistleblower alleged that commission employees had altered or omitted material found in highway patrol reports on each of the state's 13 casinos.
The commission refused to make the report public, citing attorney-client privilege, which the Columbia Daily Tribune called a violation of the state's Sunshine Law.